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critical philosophy — noun : Kantianism especially with reference to the critical establishment of necessary presuppositions for knowledge * * * critical philosophy noun That of Kant which is based on a critical examination of the foundations of knowledge • • • Main… … Useful english dictionary

critical philosophy — /ˌkrɪtɪkəl fəˈlɒsəfi/ (say .kritikuhl fuh losuhfee) noun the mature philosophy of Kant, based on a critical examination of the faculty of knowledge … Australian English dictionary

Critical Buddhism — is a trend in Japanese Buddhist scholarship, associated primarily with the works of Hakamaya Noriaki and Matsumoto Shirō. According to Lin Chen kuo, Hakamaya s view is that Critical Buddhism sees methodical, rational critique as belonging to the… … Wikipedia

critical theory — The title is specifically applied to the philosophical approach of the Frankfurt school . This owed its philosophical background to Hegel and to Marx, seeing social and cultural imperfections as defects of rationality, and comparing them with an… … Philosophy dictionary

critical realism — Any doctrine reconciling the real, independent, objective nature of the world ( realism ) with a due appreciation of the mind dependence of the sensory experiences whereby we know about it (hence, critical). In critical, as opposed to naïve,… … Philosophy dictionary